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“Kitchen Sink” by Alison Maclean [1989] (via Infocult)
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“An Italian singer wrote this song with gibberish to sound like English. If you’ve ever wondered what other people think Americans sound like, this is it.”
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Top 25 Albums of 2009
My favorite albums of the years, after the cut… 25. James Blackshaw - The Glass Bead Game This is Cathedral music. Music you’d expect to hear after being cleansed of sins. Blackshaw’s playing has always come about as close to orchestral grandeur as one instrument can, but this album is at once more reserved, plaintive, and even remorseful, more confessional than symphonic....
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"Yeah, life sucks, but there's an alternative,"...
From Pitchfork’s review of Album: “Girls frontman Christopher Owens grew up in the Children of God cult. His older brother died as a baby because the cult didn’t believe in medical attention. His dad left. He and his mother lived around the world, and the cult sometimes forced his mother to prostitute herself. As a teenager, Owens fled and lived as a Texas gutter-punk for a...
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Bandcamp is by far the best music hosting service I’ve yet to find, making MyspaceMusic look like, well, Myspace. It makes it ridiculously easy for artists to host and distribute music, charge on fixed or pay-what-you-will pricing models, license tunes through Creative Commons, and allow listeners to embed and share your music. FOR FREE. I’ve embedded a track from my music...
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Herbert’s Hippopotamus: Marcuse and Revolution in Paradise “This documentary examines the turbulent life in California of political philosopher Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979), author of One-Dimensional Man, Reason and Revolution and Eros and Civilization, among other books, professor of philosophy at the University of California San Diego, and a visionary and influential force for the...
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Significant Objects →
A wonderful weblog presenting curious artifacts and the stories behind them. It only goes to show that we aren’t the only ones with lives, stories, consciousnesses. Objects outsource their cognition to humans, amongst other technologies, to do their storytelling for them. When I tell you about the significance of this thing, it is the thing telling its story through me, just as the flower...
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“Unserifed letters have a history at least as long, and quite as distinguished,...”
– Robert Bringhurst, from The Elements of Typographic Style.
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Retro-future: Glorious Urbanism  →
Stunning speculative images from the past.
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